Surging food prices push UK inflation over 10%

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 20, 2022 12:08 am

LONDON: Inflation in the United Kingdom jumped back above 10 percent in September on soaring food prices, official data showed on Wednesday, with the country gripped by a cost-of-living crisis bedeviling the government.

The consumer prices index accelerated to 10.1 percent on an annual basis from 9.9 percent in August, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement.

Nighttime traffic outside the Bank of England in the City of London, United Kingdom on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. AP PHOTO

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